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Last year, I tried several epub readers on a linux amd64 laptop. None was satisfying. All those that just wrapped chromium crashed with some epub files: that wa

Last year, I tried several epub readers on a linux amd64 laptop. None was satisfying. All those that just wrapped chromium crashed with some epub files: that was the case for "Foliate", which was the inspiration for this "Alexandria" project. The Calibre reader was slow and unresponsive. Mupdf was fast and stable, but it lacked important features, like a table of contents. A Firefox plugin was okay, but its workflow was impractical. I've since bought a e-ink device, so I don't read much on my laptop. When I do, I use Koreader. It's perfect for my Kobo device, and quite alright for a computer.

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watwut 3y ago
I use fbreader, but did not tried it on linux.
- anon____ 3y ago
  In my opinion, it's the best on Linux.
AB1908 3y ago
How is annotation support on Koreader? Eink devices in general seem to be a hassle to annotate on compared to my phone.
- edent 3y ago
  It's pretty good. You can highlight a passage and then it pops up a box for you to type in. However, Lua doesn't support native Android keyboards - so you have to use a virtual keyboard https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/7423 https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/7423
ajot 3y ago
A couple of years back I tried Zathura, with the mupdf backend (if I remember correctly, this was the needed plugin for epub, so I also ditched the Poppler backend for PDF). I'm not a keyboard centric user, so couldn't get accustomed to it, but still think it works pretty well. https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
AlanYx 3y ago
Thorium Reader is an under-appreciated ebook reader IMHO that works well on Linux.
slikrick 3y ago
Just to be clear, you have never tried Alexandria or it's technologies directly? yet wrote two paragraphs?